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If .my rebel or vain fpirit of mine 
Did, with the lealt pffeclion of a welcome, 
Give entertainment to the might of it; 
Let heav’n for ever keep it from my head. Skakefpeare. 
To debar from any place.—Ill fenc’d for Heav’n to keep 
out fuch a foe. Milton. 
To Keep back. To referve ; to with-hold.—Some are 
fo clofe and referved, as they will not (liow their wares 
but by a dark light, and feem always to keep back fome- 
what. Bacon's EJjays. —To with-hold ; to reftrain.— Keep 
back thy fervant from prefumptuous fins. Pfal. xix. 
To Keep Company. To frequent any one ; to accom¬ 
pany.—Why (houlti he call her whore ? Who keeps her 
company? Skakefpeare. 
What mean’ll thou, bride! this company to keep? 
To fit up till thou fain would lleep ? Donne. 
To Keep Company with. To have familiar intercourfe.— 
A virtuous woman is obliged not only to avoid immo- 
defly, but the appearance of it; and die could not approve 
of a young woman keeping company with men, without the 
permidiou of father or mother. Broome on the Odyjfey. 
To Keep in. To conceal ; not to tell.—I perceive in 
you fo excellent a touch of modetty, that you will not 
extort from me what I am willing to keep in. Skakefpeare. 
Syphax, your zeal becomes importunate ; 
I’ve hitherto permitted it to rave, 
And talk at large ; but learn to keep it in, 
Left it fhould take more freedom than I’ii give it. Addif. 
To reftrain ; to curb —If thy daughter be fhamelefs, keep 
her c/i ftraitly, left die abufe lierfelf through over-much li¬ 
berty. Ecctef. 
To Keep off. To bear to-diftance ; not to admit.—To 
hinder.—A luperdcial reading, accompanied with the 
common opinion of his invincible obfeurity, has kept off 
fome from feeking in him the coherence of his difcourle. 
Locke. 
To Keep up. To maintain without abatement.—The 
ancients were careful to coin money in due weight and 
finenefs, and keep it up to the ftandard. Arbuthnot. —To 
continue; to hinder from ceafing.—Young heirs, from 
their own reflefting upon the edates they are born to, are 
of no ufe but to keep up their families, and tranfinit their 
lands and lioufes in a line to pofterfty. Addifon. 
To Keep under. To opprefs; to fubdue.—Truth may 
be fmothered a long time, and kept under by violence; but 
it will break out at laft. Stilling fleet. 
To KEEP, v. n. To remain by fome labour or effort in 
a certain ftate: 
With all our force we kept aloof to fea. 
And gain’d the idand where our veifels lay. Pope's OdyJJ. 
To continue in any place or ftate; to ftay.—She would 
give her a lefl’on for walking fo late, that Oiould make 
her keep within doors for one fortnight. Sidney. 
What! keep a week away? feven days and nights ? 
Eightfcore eight hours ? and lovers abfent hours! 
Oh weary reckoning. Skakefp. Othello. 
To remain unhurt; to laft ; to be durable.—If the malt 
be not thoroughly dried, the ale it makes will not keep. 
Mortimer's Hujbandry. 
Difdain me not, although I be not fair: 
Doth beauty keep which never fun can burn, 
Nor ftorms do turn ! Sidney. 
To dwell; to live conftantlyx 
A breath thou art. 
Servile to all the dciey inftuences. 
That do this habitation, where thou keep'fl, 
Houriy afflict. Skakejp. Meafure for Meafure. 
To adhere ftriftly: with to .—Did they keep to one con¬ 
stant drefs, they would fometimes be in falliion, which they 
sever are. Addifon's Spedatar. 
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To Keep on. To go forward •. 
So chearfully he took the doom; 
Nor fhrunk, nor ftept from death. 
But, with unalter’d pace, kept on. Dryden. 
To Keep up. To continue unfubdued.—He grew dek 
of a confumption ; yet he Hill kept up, that he might free 
his country. Life of Cleomenes. —The general idea of this 
word is care, continuance, or duration, fometimes with 
an intimation of cogency or coercion. Joknfon. 
To take Keep. To take heed : 
And unto Morpheus comes, whom drowned deepe 
In drowfy fit he Andes; of nothing he takes kcepe. Speifer. 
To obferve : 
Sir knight, take keep 
How all thef'e fhores are l'pread with fquadrons brave. 
Fairfax. 
KEEP, f. [from the verb.] Cuftody ; guard : 
Pan, thou god of fhepherds all, 
Which of our lambkins takeft keep. Spen/er. 
Gitardianfhip ; reftraint.—Youth is leaft looked into 
when they Hand in nroft need of good keep and fegard. 
AJcham. 
A ftrong tower or hold in the middle of any caftle or 
fortification, wherein the befieged made their laft efforts of 
defence, was formerly in England called a keep; and the in¬ 
ner pile within the caftle of Dover, ereffed by king Hen¬ 
ry II. about the year 1153, was termed the King’s Keep ; 
fo at Windfor, See. It feems to be fotnething of the na¬ 
ture of that which is called abroad a citadel. See Archi¬ 
tecture, vol. ii. 
KEE'PER,yi One who holds any thing for the ufe of 
another.—The good old man, having neither reafon to dif- 
fuade, nor hopes to perfuade, received the things with the 
mind of a keeper , not of an owner. Sidney. —One who has 
prifoners in cuftody.—The keeper of the prifon ; call to 
him. Skakefpeare. 
A pleafant bev’rage he prepar’d before, 
Of wine and water mix’d, with added ftore 
Of opium; to his keeper this he brought, 
Who fwallow’d unaware the fleepy draught. Dryden. 
One who has the care of parks, or beafts of chace : 
There is an old tale goes, that Herne the hunter. 
Sometime a keeper here in Windfor foreft. 
Doth all the winter-time, at ftill of midnight, 
Walk round about an oak with ragged horns. Skakefpeare. 
One that has the fuperintendence or care of any thing.— 
Hilkiah went unto Hildah, keeper of the wardrobe. 2 Kings. 
Keeper of the Forest, or Chief-warden of the Fo¬ 
reft, hath the principal government over all officers with¬ 
in the foreft; and warns them to appear at the Court of 
Juftice-feat, op a general fiummons from the Lord Chief 
Juftice in Eyre. Manwood, part 1. p. 156. See Forest. 
Keeper of the Great Seal, Cuflos magni figilli, is a 
lord by his office, ftyled Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of 
England, and is of the king’s privy council. Through his 
hands pafs all charters, commiffions, and grants, of the 
king under the great leal; without which feal many of 
thofe grants and commiffions are of no force in law ; for 
the king is by interpretation of law a corporation, and 
f >afleth nothing but by the great feal, which is as the pub¬ 
ic faith of the kingdom, in the high efteem and reputa¬ 
tion juftly attributed thereto. The great feal confifts of 
two impreffions, one being the very feal itfelf with the ef¬ 
figies of the king (lamped on it; the other has an itnpref- 
fion of the king’s arms in the figure of a target, for mat¬ 
ters of afmaller moment, as certificates, Sec. that are ufu- 
ally pleaded fub pedefigilli. And anciently, when the king 
travelled into France or other foreign kingdoms, there 
were two great feals; one went with the king, and another 
was left with the CuftosRegni, or the chancellor, Sec. If 
the great feal be altered, the fame is notified in the court 
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